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1 Alfred Hrdlicka 7 Helmut & Johanna Kandl 13 Gerold Tagwerker 19 W. M. Pühringer 25 Franz West Mahnmal gegen Krieg Denkmal für eine Nobelpreis- mirror.grid_passage 2012 Hic et nunc 2004 Gerngross-Säule 2000/2007 und Faschismus 1988 trägerin 2006 Together with the architect Anna Hic et nunc (Here and Now) is a large The Austrian artist Franz West (1947– The Vienna City Council commissioned After collecting stories and anecdotes in Wickenhauser, the Austrian artist Gerold sculpture by the Austrian artist W. M. 2012) dedicated this column to the the Austrian sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka the Volkertplatz neighborhood for years, Tagwerker (*1965) designed a horizontal Pühringer (*1945). The work is an architect, exhibition organizer, and (1928–2009) to conceive a Monument the Austrian artist duo Johanna (*1954) grid band of grey ceramic tiles for the eleven-meter-high metal object that journalist Heidulf Gerngross (*1939). against War and Fascism. Controversial- and Helmut (*1953) Kandl condensed walls of the pedestrian underpass, which breaks through public space. The Gerngross Column is intended as a ly discussed at the time, the ensemble this material to the fictitious biogra- is ornamentally rhythmized by mirror tiles “The sculpture resembles the material- metaphor of an exhibition organizer’s shows suffering, pain, and humiliation phy of a woman who will be awarded interrupting the band both vertically and ized ray of a remote galaxy” Herculean task. An egg with the mirror as consequences of fascism, war, and the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2045. horizontally. (quote by W. M. Pühringer). image of Gerngross’s name caps the anti-Semitism. The Monument to a Female Nobel Prize garbage can tower. Winner is dedicated to her. 1030 Vienna, pedestrian underpass 1050 Vienna, Margaretenstraße/Grohgasse 1010 Vienna, Albertinaplatz Adolf-Blamauer-Gasse/Ghegastraße g U4 Pilgramgasse; buses 12A, 59A 1060 Vienna, Rahlgasse 5 (traffic circle) g U1, U2, U4 Karlsplatz; 1020 Vienna, Volkertplatz g tram 18 Heinrich-Drimmel-Platz Bacherplatz g U2 Museumsquartier trams 1, 2, D Oper g tram 2 Taborstraße/Heinestraße; bus 80A Volkertplatz © Walter Schaub-Walzer / PID, 2009 © Andrea Huemer, 2009 © Iris Ranzinger, 2012 © Markus Hanakam, 2010 © Ulrike Wagendorfer, 2009 2 Michael Kienzer 8 Pedro Cabrita Reis 14 Ernst Caramelle 20 Hannah Stippl 26 Iris Andraschek Stylit 2005 two drawings in the sky, Ohne Titel 2013 work in progress 2010 Tell these people who I am 2011/2012 two paintings underneath 2013 In his work Stylite, Michael Kienzer The Austrian artist Ernst Caramelle’s The Austrian artist Hannah Stippl The Austrian artist Iris Andraschek’s (*1962) interprets space as an archive Marking the façades of the subway (*1952) “fresco-like” wall painting (*1968) used the retaining walls of the (*1963) work comprises three “ carpets” of objects, which he juxtaposes with stations Donaumarina and Donaustadt- Untitled responds to the architectural Ernst- Arnold-Park as the ground for a milled into different sidewalks of Vien- an elongated vertical sculpture. On the brücke with paint, light, and form, the situation of the main passageway. dialogically structured artistic interven- na’s seventh district. The patterns of end of a several-meter-long rod or pipe, Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis Asymmetric color fields as well as mirror tion. Reacting to the sprayer and graffiti the carpets carry information on three which grows out of a pot-like pedestal, (*1956) has established a visual con- bands along the opposite wall create scene, she worked on the design for the female personalities (Gisela von Camesi- he mounts a well pump which—un- nection with the architecture of the two new symmetries and offer different walls from 2010 to 2013. na de San Vittore, Olly Schwarz, and Vally reachable for pedestrians passing by— subway buildings on the north and on points of view. Wieselthier). sits at the height of the treetops and the south bank of the Danube River. 1050 Vienna, retaining walls of the Ernst-Arnold-Park street lights. 1040 Vienna, subway station Karlsplatz, 1070 Vienna, Lerchenfelder Straße 131 1020 Vienna, U2 station Donaumarina main passageway g U4 Pilgramgasse (Augustinplatz and Stiftgasse 2) 1010 Vienna, corner Stubenring/ 1220 Vienna, U2 station Donaustadtbrücke g U1, U2, U4 Karlsplatz g U6, trams 5, 46 Thaliastraße Weiskirchnerstraße g U2 Donaumarina and U2 Donaustadtbrücke g U3, tram 2 Stubentor © Nora Höglinger / KÖR GmbH, 2015 U2 station Donaustadtbrücke © Lisa Rastl, 2013 © Iris Ranzinger, 2013 © Hannah Stippl, 2013 © Mischa Erben, 2011 3 Ken Lum 9 Speto 15 Franz Graf 21 Heimo Zobernig 27 Heinz Gappmayr Pi 2006 3 Brothers 2014 SUED 2012 ohne Titel 2010 Raumtexte 2006 The permanent media installation Pi in The work by the Brazilian artist Speto The Austrian artist Franz Graf (*1954) has Ivy is a motif associated with both na- From 1961 on the Austrian artist Heinz the western underground pedestrian (*1971) pays homage to the Villas Bôas selected a variety of pictorial motifs from ture and walls. The Austrian artist Heimo Gappmayr (1925–2010) devoted himself passageway on Karlsplatz was created brothers and the narrative cultures his art archives for his four-part installa- Zobernig’s (*1958) ornamental design to language at the interface between the by the Canadian artist Ken Lum (*1956). of Brazil’s indigenous population. The tion in the passageway, which compris- for the walls of the intermediate level in realm of concepts and that of fine art. In the middle of the passageway we find former colonizers Leonardo, Orlando and es 65 glass panels, and assembled them the form of a mosaic aims at producing For Spatial Texts he chose the word ECHO the transcendent number pi (π) with 478 Cláudio Villas Bôas became dedicated to complex compositions. The subjects an impression of depth by layers of for the façade of Vienna’s Central Library, decimal places, with the most recently advocates of indigenous rights and follow star charts and connecting lines color. In untitled a photographic model the word ZEIT (TIME) for the entrance Vienna calculated figures being shown on the environments from the 1960s onwards. which reflect relationships between is translated into glass mosaic stones, hall to the subway, and six astronomical display. words and thoughts of passengers. the former’s pixels corresponding to the names referring to stars for the foyer. 1020 Vienna, columns between Trabrenn- latter’s size. Public Art Public 1010 Vienna, subway station Karlsplatz, straße and Stella-Klein-Löw-Weg 1040 Vienna, passageway Vienna Central 1070 Vienna, Central Library – western passageway, exit Secession g U2 Krieau Station/U1 Südtiroler Platz – Central Station 1050 Vienna, tram station Laurenzgasse Gürtel, Urban-Loritz-Platz 2 a g U1, U2, U4 Karlsplatz g S-Bahn, U1 Südtiroler Platz – Central g trams 1, 62 Laurenzgasse g U6 Burggasse – Stadthalle; Station trams 9, 18, 49 Urban-Loritz-Platz © Jörg Auzinger, 2006 © Iris Ranzinger, 2014 © Iris Ranzinger, 2012 © Marianne Greber, 2010 © Manfred Seidl, 2006 4 Olaf Nicolai 10 Ingeborg Strobl 16 Peter Kogler 22 Ronald Kodritsch 28 Esther Stocker About KÖR Guided Tours Denkmal für die Verfolgten ein Garten (zum Beispiel) 2008 U-Bahn-Station Karlsplatz 2011 Reason to Believe 2009 TONSPUR_passage 2006 der NS-Militärjustiz 2014 Kunst im öffentlichen Raum (KÖR) KÖR also offers individually tailored The title of this large-format work on The Austrian artist Peter Kogler’s (*1959) Reason to Believe by the Austrian artist The SOUNDTRACK_passage is one of GmbH (Public Art Vienna) is commit- guided tours to art projects in During the Second World War Nazi military enamel plates by the Austrian artist solution for the intermediate level of Ronald Kodritsch (*1970) is a life-size five passages in the MuseumsQuartier ted to breathing new life into the Vienna’s public space: tours for justice handed out more than 30,000 death Ingeborg Strobl (*1949), a Garden (for the Subway Station Karlsplatz is aimed figure of a man with glasses and a plain Wien dedicated to a certain theme. It city of Vienna’s public space with small groups (up to 15 persons) sentences most of which were passed Example), refers to previous names for at virtually extending its real spatial grey suit carrying an attaché case, is located between courtyards 7 and 8. permanent or temporary art projects. comprising up to six works of art in against deserters. The Memorial for the Novaragasse (Garden Lane from 1797 to structure. A network of computer-gen- which was mounted on the edge of The vault design was developed by the Its endeavors are aimed at strength- a certain area; duration: Victims of Nazi Military Justice by the Ger- 1812 and Gardeners’ Lane until 1862). erated tube forms seems to dissolve the the roof ledge of a corner building. The South Tyrolean artist Esther Stocker ening the identity of the city and of 1.5–2 hours; fee: 150 €. man artist Olaf Nicolai (*1962) stages the The models used for the plant images boundaries of architecture and, with its economic crisis is viewed from a new (*1974). quartier 21 presents sitespecif- individual neighborhoods in terms situation of the individual and demon- are woodcuts from the nineteenth cen- dynamically intertwined shapes, alludes perspective from above. Where does ic sound works by international artists of contemporaneity and at reviving If interested please contact: strates respect for all those who position tury, which evoke the Novara Expedition to the level’s transfer function at the one step further get me?